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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Adduser program in C
To: dima@FreeBSD.org (Dima Ruban)
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, lithium@cia-g.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de,
        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199605250814.BAA16824@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Dima Ruban" at May 25, 96 01:14:18 am
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Dima Ruban wrote:
> 
> Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com writes:
> > 
> > However, I think you'd be doing yourself a real favor by learning perl
> > (and awk, sed, sh, grep, cut, etc.).  It's The Right Thing To Do.
> > It's The Unix Way: use small simple tools that are very good at a
> 
> First: this is not small tool.

	correct.

> Second: this is slow tool.

	hmm... i wonder.  how about writing and timing a coupleof
	script that you have in sed | awk | sh | whatever and
	timing the same in perl, just curious ;)

> Third: this is not standard unix tool.

	in FreeBSD it is.  /usr/bin/perl.


jmb

ps. 	majordomo is perl, anyone care to rewrite it in sh | sed | awk
	or tcl or whatever?
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Jonathan M. Bresler           FreeBSD Postmaster             jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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